GOOD EVENING: The show begins in the Federal Resrve meeting, asking what do you see that requires a half- point cut?
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
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1927 Federal Reserve
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 #Markets: Why did the Fed cut a half-point? Guest: Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business
9:15-9:30 #Markets: Harris-Walz and the working class Guest: Liz Peek, The Hill, Fox News and Fox Business
9:30-9:45 #BERLIN: The AFD and Wagenknecht dominate Brandenburg and the news Guest: Judy Dempsey, Carnegie
9:45-10:00 #BERLIN: Scholz declares no more weapons for Ukraine Guest: Judy Dempsey, Carnegie
SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 #LondonCalling: The rarely dissenting Fed Guest: @JosephSternberg, @WSJOpinion
10:15-10:30 #LondonCalling: Labour takes command Guest: @JosephSternberg, @WSJOpinion
10:30-10:45 #HEZBOLLAH: Decap Guest: Jonathan Schanzer, FDD
10:45-11:00 #HAMAS: Where is Sinwar? Guest: Jonathan Schanzer, FDD
THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 #StateThinking: The diplomats gather in grid-locked Manhattan Guest: @MaryKissel, Hudson Institute, Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State, Executive VP Stephens Inc.
11:15-11:30 #StateThinking: Disappeared Zhu in the PRC Guest: @MaryKissel, Hudson Institute, Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State, Executive VP Stephens Inc.
11:30-11:45 #NPEC: Buying Russian enriched uranium laundered by the PRC Guest: Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
11:45-12:00 #SPACE FORCE: PRC aims to flood LEO with killer satellites Guest: Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15 #SRI LANKA: Between the combatants for the Indo-Pacific Guest: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
12:15-12:30 #UKRAINE: Zelensky chooses sides in America Guest: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
12:30-12:45 #Post-Industrial-State: The abandoned working class Guest: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
12:45-1:00 am #KingCharlesReport: Prince Royal at Arnhem to remember MARKET GARDEN AND THE 1ST PARAS Guest: Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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| 0:00.0 | The show begins in markets asking the question, why did the Federal Reserve cut half a point, |
| 0:06.3 | not the quarter point that was long promised? What do they see? I speak with Liz Peek. |
| 0:12.2 | We do some guessing. |
| 0:14.0 | Perhaps they see the job softening, perhaps they see the credit card back pay climbing, |
| 0:20.0 | perhaps they see the auto loans defaulting. |
| 0:24.0 | Liz reasons that auto loans are the last thing people will give up because they need |
| 0:28.0 | their car. |
| 0:30.0 | No answer yet. |
| 0:32.0 | You'll see in the fullness of time. We also turn to the matter of |
| 0:36.4 | politics and the question of, with the working class, an essay or two doesn't make this story complete. This question does the man |
| 0:50.5 | named Jim in Pennsylvania asking a columnist for the Financial Times. |
| 0:57.0 | Why did the Democratic Party abandon us the working class? |
| 1:02.0 | Why did it move operations to the factory floor of China and |
| 1:05.0 | Mexico and other cities and other countries outside of the US? And then he |
| 1:10.8 | recommends that the Democratic Party apologize. |
| 1:14.0 | In other words, the New Dealers were obliged to make changes because the Democrats left them behind. |
| 1:20.0 | Is the allegation? We'll see. We also turn to Germany where there's |
| 1:26.0 | disruption in the elections. Brandenburg holds on for the Social |
| 1:30.6 | Democrats barely. |
| 1:32.5 | AFT, alternative for Deutschland, |
| 1:34.3 | does very well, along with Vaginc, a single woman party, |
| 1:39.4 | Sara Vaginc, sentimental for the old Soviet days. In any event, all of Germany is now turbulent |
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